Pascal Massart

Pascal Massart
Born (1958-01-23) 23 January 1958 (age 66)
CitizenshipFrance
Alma materParis-Sud University (PhD)
Scientific career
Thesis Quelques problèmes de vitesse de convergence pour des processus empiriques  (1987)
Doctoral advisorJean Bretagnolle

Pascal Massart (born 23 January 1958) is a French Statistician.

His work focuses on probability and statistics, notably the Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality,[1] the Bousquet inequality, the concentration inequality,[2] and the Efron-Stein inequality. With Lucien Birgé he worked on model selection.[3]

He received his Ph.D. in statistics from Paris-Sud University under Jean Bretagnolle. He has worked at the University of Paris-Sud and at the University of Lyon.

Honors and awards

He was awarded the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1998. He was awarded the Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace from the French Statistical Society in 2007 alongside Paul Deheuvels.[4] He was a lecturer at the European Congress of Mathematics in 2004 in Stockholm.

Books

  • Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence (2013)
  • Concentration Inequalities and Model Selection (2003)

References

  1. ^ Massart, P. (July 1990). "The Tight Constant in the Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz Inequality". Annals of Probability. 18 (3): 1269–1283. doi:10.1214/aop/1176990746. ISSN 0091-1798. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  2. ^ Boucheron, Stéphane; Lugosi, Gábor; Massart, Pascal (2013). Concentration Inequalities: A Nonasymptotic Theory of Independence. OUP Oxford. ISBN 978-0-19-953525-5. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. ^ Birgé, Lucien; Massart, Pascal (1 May 2007). "Minimal Penalties for Gaussian Model Selection". Probability Theory and Related Fields. 138 (1): 33–73. doi:10.1007/s00440-006-0011-8. ISSN 1432-2064. S2CID 6361101.
  4. ^ "Le Prix Pierre-Simon de Laplace". Société Française de Statistique. Retrieved 30 April 2020.